Game



Patented Jan. 6, 1925.

UNITED STAT ROBERT CARLSON, 0F GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT.

' GAME.

Application filed. September 19,1923. Serial No. 663,528.

To all 20 710m it may] concern Be it known that I, ROBERT CARLsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Greenwich, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in games, and one of the objects thereof is to provide a game whiclris inexpensive and simple to manufacture, and yet amusing and interesting to the players, the construction of the various devices employed being of such a nature that considerable skill is required in playing the game. i

In general my improved game, comprises a wheel, provided with wings or paddles, which is spun by driving a ball against the paddles, the wheel being provided or cooperating with an indicator designating the next play to be made. In addition stakes are provided which may be driven into the ground some distance from the wheel, the object being to encircle each of the stakes and finally return to the starting point, the order in which the stakes are passed or encircled depending upon the spinning of the wheel.

In the accompanying drawings I have made provision for six (6) players, but this number may be varied, of course, as desired. The halls employed in playing the game are driven with amallet, each mallet and its ball being correspondingly colored so that each player may always be certain of his ball, while one of the stakespreferably the starting stakeis provided with colored stripes or other indicia indicating the order in which the players are to play. The paddles of the wheel are also colored to correspond to each mallet and its ball, and each player is required to strike his own paddle or wing.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in elevation the improved wheel employed in the game;

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the wheel of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a more or less diagrammatic View of the entire apparatus showing the stakes and wheel, etc., in position.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 designates the base or bottom portion of my improved wheel, this base being provided with a stake 2 adapted to be driven into the ground when the game is played out of doors. If the game is. to be played indoors, the lower part of the stake is omitted.

The indicator 3, which is used for, indicating the plays to be made, is a thin plate made of sheet metal, for, example, or other suitable material and divided on the face thereof into six (6) sections, 4, 5, 6, 7 8 and 9, respectively, as indicated in Fig. 2. It willbe understood, that the. number of sections into which the indicator is provided may be varied, as desired. The indicator has a central aperture 10 and eccentric apertures 11 and 12, respectively, and is held in place upon the member 1 by means of a washer or locking member 13 provided with pins 14, which pass throughthe holes 11 and 12 in the indicator and are received by apertures or holes in the base member 1. This 7 arrangement effectively holds the indicator in place on the base of the wheel. The rotor of the wheel comprises a hub 15-preferably, though not necessarily, made in two (2) pieces-which is slipped overthe top of, the stake-2 already referred to, the wheel, when the game is being played, being spun about this stake Clamped between the upper and lower members constituting the hub or rotor 15 are paddles 16, 17, 18, 19,20 and 21, the lower edge of each paddle falling short of the base or the support 1, to enable 1 resting upon the ground. v

The paddles or wings 16,17,18, etc.,; are

the wheel to be spun or rotated, with thebase colored to correspond to the mallets 22 and balls 23. For example, thepaddle of wing 16 has been illustrated as red in color, its corresponding mallet 22 and ball 23 being likewise .colored redwhich indicates that the red ball must be driven by the red mallet against the red paddle. I

The pegs, of which there are five (5), are designated 24, while 25 designates a starting and home stake. This stake is striped or otherwise colored, as indicated at 26,to correspond to the colors used on the paddles and mallets, etc. This coloring on the starting stake is to indicate the order of play. In other words, if the colors in the starting stake run red, green, blue, etc., the balls are played red, green, blue, etc.

In use the wheel is assembled as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and held in position on the ground by *the stake 2. The pegs 24 and cator 3, which will indicate the play to be made the next time this players turn to play-is reached. The object of the game is tdenc ircle each of the pegs 2st, the player being required to'drive tothe wheel each t'iiiie"affter encircling a peg. The player first encircling all or the pegs and stril zing the. 'home or starting stake isthe \vinner.

dVhile I have described a specific manner of playing my improved game, it is to be n rs o d that this may be departed from withinthe purview of my invention.

WVh'at I 'claim' 1s": 1..In a game apparatus, the combination of a wheel providedwith wings or paddle s, a"supp'ort for the wheel and on which the wheel is ada pted to be rotated, and an indicatorfixed'relatively to said support and pi'ovi ded Wit-h. playing instructio 'lsi Said paddlesi on'w'ings niovab le over the J face 015' said stationary 1 indicator, whereby as the' wheelisrotated theneiit play to be madewiu ,be indicated.

"'22' '-In game apparatus, the combination of a rotatable wheel provided with a pluralityofwings or paddles, an indicator located 7 below wheel co-operating with said paddles or wings, each of said paddles ngs beingof adifi'e'rent color fro' nthe rotatetlie' wheel",'* tl 1e indicator co-operating witlis aid paddles When the wheel is rotated to indicate the next play tobe made by the rotated ,the wheel.

3:; In a ga n pparatu's, the combination and balls colored to correspond with ea paddle'arid adapted when driven to st lie the correspondingly coloredpaddle to of a Wheel provided with a plurality of wings or paddles each bearing a different color, a support tlie wheel, an indicator ln'depe'ndent of said wheel and having 1ndicia thereon, said indicator being secured to said"support andheld against rotation relatively thereto, a plurality of balls, each ball being colored to correspond to one of the wings or paddles of said wheel, and malletseach of which is colored to correspond to a correspondingly colored ball, said mallets and balls co-operating with said wheel to rotate the same, said indicator cooperatingwith the wings or paddles of said wheel'to indicate the next play to be made.

a. In a game apparatus, the combination of a wheel provided: with a plurality of wings or paddles ofdiiierent colors, an indicator co-operating with said paddles or wings, a plurality of pegs spaced from said wheel and equally spaced from each other, a home stake in line with said pegs, a plurality of balls, each ball being colored to correspond to one of the paddles or wings of said wheel, and aplurality of inallets each colored to correspond to its-respective ball, said wheel beingrotated by dri\-*ing a ball of a certain color against a wing or paddle the same color, said indicator cooperating with said wheel to indicate the nex play to be made by said last mentioned ballin causing the ball to advance from the home stake to" said wheel and from thence around each of said pegs.

5. In a game apparatus, the combination of a support, an indicator. carried thereby and frictionally held against rotation relatively to said support, a w heelhaving a hub superimposed on said indicator, paddlescarried bytsaid hub and movable over the face ofsaid indicator, anda pinorstake adapted to pass throughsaid hub indicator and support to hold said members in operative rela tive positions This specification signed this ltth day of September, 1923. i

RQBERT CABLSON. 

